Schedule for Baking and How It Works

General Information:

With pies, we will be focusing on simple pastry crusts. While there are a variety of different recipes for pie crusts, we will stick to one basic recipe with a couple of exceptions. Some pies will require single crusts while others will require double crust. Also, some will require blind baking. The proportions we will use come from The Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum but we will use a slightly different technique for combining ingredients per the description in class. Discussion of alternative crust techniques and recipes will be limited to the class. Unless otherwise directed, use the class crust recipe rather than the crust recipe given with the recipe. As always, please read the recipes closely before you come to class! Check with the team before you to make sure they are on schedule. Some pies will reqire stove top preparation.

Recipes:

Traditional Pie Crust Ratios (recipe to be distributed)

Team 1: Lemon Meringue Pie: http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes/detail.asp?docid=5424
Single crust. Blind baking required. Mix dough 1:30 Wednesday, Prepare dough 9:00 Thursday, Bake at 10:00

Team 2: Dutch Apple Pie: http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes/detail.asp?docid=5374
Single crust. Blind baking required. Mix dough 1:30 Wednesday, Prepare dough 9:00 Thursday, Bake at 10:00

Team 3: Pocket Pies: Bakewise by Corriher, pages 306 & 308
Use Corriher dough recipe. Stove top cooking. Mix/Prepare dough at 9:00, Cooking at 10:30

Team 4: Blue Berry Tart (recipe to be distributed)
Blind baking required. Mix/Prepare dough at 9:00, Bake at 10:30

Team 5: Pecan Pie: (recipe to be distributed)
Use Foolproof Recipe, Single Crust. Prepare crust 10:00, Bake at 11:15
Foolproof Crust http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes/detail.asp?docid=11572

Team 6: Chess Pie: (recipe to be distributed)
Single Crust. Prepare crust 10:00, Bake at 11:15

Team 7: Galettes (recipes to be distributed)
Use Coriher's Mixer recipe page 304, Two Galettes/Double Crust. Prepare crust at 11:00, Bake at 12:15

Team 8: Pineapple Pie (recipe to be distributed)
Double/Lattice Crust. Prepare crust at 11:00, Bake at 12:15

Everyone back for pigout at 2:00

Comments

We are just scratching the surface, but you should see many of the fundamentals with these recipes.

Interim 2010: Baking and How it Works Joe Sloan Class Notes for January 21: Pie Recipes

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Interim 2010: Baking and How it Works
Joe Sloan
Class Notes for January 21: Pie Recipes